The Hot Air Music Festival is a student-led celebration of contemporary and expansive classical music from the last 50 years that provides young composers and performers the opportunity to present new works. We strengthen the new music community in the Bay Area with an emphasis on premiering new works and multimedia collaborations.

Program

Jeffery Mosier: Compassion for organ + Compassion for drumset
Lexi Pulido, voice
Jeffery Mosier, piano

Johnny Incipido: The Crimson Stag
Jessica Folson, violin
Paul Kim, violin
Sarah Hooton, viola
Elmer Carter, cello
Clark Evans, piano

Johnny Incipido: Kilig
Jessica Folson, violin
Paul Kim, violin
Sarah Hooton, viola
Elmer Carter, cello
Clark Evans, piano

Brayden Meng: Urbanite Odyssey
     1. Come Alive
Matthias Santucci, piano

Intermission

Martin Hebel: Radiant Pillars
William Hueholt, piano

Marina Davis and Brig Urias: Through the Endless Coil
     I. A Bedroom at Dawn
     II. A Shapeless Doorway
     III. A Fork in the Road
     IV. A Motel in the Middle of Nowhere
     V. An Expanse at Midnight
Brig Urias, guitar
Marina Davis, mezzo-soprano

Mukil Narayanan: Les Trois Oiseaux
Matthew "Manny" Vousé, violin
Athena Giuliani, violin

Robert Fleisher: Five Songs from Carl Sandburg's Prairie
     1. I was born on the Prairie
     2. I am here when the cities are gone
     3. Have you seen a red sunset
     4. River cut a path on flat lands
     5. I speak of new cities and new people
Sarita Cannon, soprano
Kymry Esainko, piano